Hi Everyone,
We have had a lovely time here. We rented a car and drove all around and across the island and yesterday we did a hike along one of the Levadas. These are watercourses in the mountains that have been built (I don't know how anyone could possibly build anything on those sheer cliffs) to collect the waterfall and spring water and funnel it down to the villages. There is a narrow path along each Levada that is just possible to fit one person (and at a very tight squeeze to pass someone) with a 1,000m drop off the edge. We saw some waterfalls. We stopped for lunch at a little bridge and while we were eating there was a huge rockfall into the river about 20m from us. We heard the noise, didn't know where it was coming from so by the time we reacted and started running, the rocks had fallen and there was a huge amount of dust. There was no way we would have escaped if it was where we were! Lucky it was just up from us. When we returned, we saw new mud in the river, so a second landslide must have happened in the meantime. We also saw a few other fairly recent landslides.
Lots of love
Arti & Dimitri
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